Can anyone tell me how to copy styles from one word (2010) document to another? Seemed like a very obvious thing but is apparantly not.

Also, is there a command, script that I can run against a word 2010 document (source) which has the styles that I want to copy to a new word 2010 document (destination) that does not have those styles. I want to do this copy from one source document to a number of destination documents in one step.

I need to save the style into another dotx it seems, by following your suggestion. Ideally, I would want to transfer the style directly to the document I am working on rather than work onthe newly created dotx.
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RegmiSep 24 '12 at 18:20

I've found that the easiest way to do this within Word is to open the new document (that you want to import the style to).

To do this, first open the Styles Window (Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S), and click on Manage Styles.
At the bottom of the Manage Styles window is Import/Export....
You can then choose another file by closing your normal.dotm file, and using Open File to select file with style(s), then copying the required styles across.

Works for 2013, 2010, 2007.
In 2007 the Manage Styles is a small icon in the Styles Window

I think there is another simple method to do this like I always did.
If your Styles is in Document A, open Document A and ‘save as’ to another name such as Document B. Your Styles now will be available in Document B. Delete ‘old content’ in Document B and copy your new manuscript into Document B and apply the Styles to your text. I think that should be ok. :)

For the first part of the question and if you are copying just a few styles, the easiest is just to copy any text with the style you want and pasting it on the target document. The style will also be copied and will stay there even if you delete the text (don't undo instead of delete!).